Shane Richmond is Head of Technology (Editorial) for Telegraph Media Group. He first joined the Telegraph in 1998 and has been Online News Editor and Communities Editor. He writes about all kinds of technology but especially Apple, iOS, ebooks and ereaders, and digital media.

Barack Obama's new trick: making a reporter levitate

I imagine that one of the great things about being President of the United States is that you can make people do silly things for your amusement. You can, for example, make a New York Times journalist sit on a 'hovercraft' and float across the floor: